cubiculum

The term cubicle comes from the Latin cubiculum, for bed chamber.

Then a low wall would be built in the front, leaving a trough (the cubiculum) in which to place the body.

The floor mosaics of the cubiculum often marked out a rectangle where the bed should be placed.

The cubiculum has a mosaic text in which the worker wishes Maternus prosperity.

The term derives from their service in the sacrum cubiculum, the emperor's "sacred bedchamber".

The facing long walls (19 ft or 5.8 m) of the Metropolitan cubiculum are mirror images of each other, possibly by transfer, with variations.

Opposite these lie an additional cubiculum, an ala (a service area for a dining room), and an oecus (a small dining area).

As in many houses in Pompeii, here the smaller dining room (triclinium minus) forms a suite with the adjoining cubiculum and bath.

I guess this means I must escort you back myself," sniffed Pangloss, heading toward one of the narrow passageways that opened onto the cubiculum.

Late 4th century - Cubiculum of Leonis, Catacomb of Commodilla, near Rome, is made.

The cubiculum had been turned into a shrine of some kind, although I had a hard time imagining who might be so desperate as to seek solace in such a place.

Other scholars categorize Room 43 simply as a bedroom (cubiculum), which often featured erotic imagery, and find it unnecessary to conclude that sexual entertainment was offered to guests there.

Cubiculum from the house of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

After walking for a half-hour and descending three levels, the corridor emptied into a cubiculum, one of the larger and more elaborate burial chambers reserved for the wealthy dead.

The original imperial spatharioi were probably or later became also the eunuch cubicularii (Greek: koubikoularioi), members of the sacrum cubiculum (the imperial "sacred chamber") charged with military duties.

Via a staircase down, one finds the arcades where varied cubicula (including the cubiculum of Giona's fine four stage cycle of paintings, dating to the end of the 4th century).

Another explanation has it that the onion dome was originally regarded as a form reminiscent of the edicula (cubiculum) in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.

Note that Romans in "The place that send you mad" use a lot of Latin terms in their dialog - for example, they use "Cubiculum" instead of "Bedroom".

Allieus Maius and his family occupied the extensive ground floor, which featured an impressive atrium, multiple bedrooms (cubiculum), several dining or recreational rooms and a peristype featuring sixteen Ionic columns.

The fullest actual reconstruction from original materials at present is of a bedroom (cubiculum diurnum), one of the holdings of the Metropolitan Museum since 1903, and since 2007 a feature of the new Roman Gallery.

I wanted the horses out early, this morning, and I stole up to Tom's cubiculum there, over the stables, and there I heard him holding a meeting by himself; and, in fact, I haven't heard anything quite so savory as Tom's prayer, this some time.

In a nearby cubiculum are some of the most ancient burials, after AD 175, with Roman frescoes of (on the ceiling) the Good Shepherd and orantes and (on the far wall) two fish with a basket of loaves behind it, a symbol of the Eucharist.

In the oldest parts of the complex may be found the "cubiculum of the coronation", with a rare depiction for that period of Christ being crowned with thorns, and a 4th-century painting of Susanna and the old men in the allegorical guise of a lamb and wolves.